Oh we’re in it now. Some of our long time favorite apps are now getting bumped for Windows Phone 8 and we’re really excited about it. Weather Flow, made by Gergely Orosz (who’s also behind such the amazing Cocktail Flow and AppFlow) just hit the version 1.3 marker and it’s primed for the new OS.

The new update, weighing in at a sprightly 9MB, has newly updated graphics, fixed Live Tiles, lockscreen wallpaper and a few other goodies on board. Check our video hands on and see what we think.

The biggest feature we think and for which many of you have been asking is dynamic lockscreen wallpaper. It’s here and it’s done very well. Once enabled, the lockscreen will immediately update with the image of the current conditions. In addition, your location, current temperature, percent chance of rain and even last update are displayed.

We have to give credit here to Gergely as the layout from a usability standpoint is perfect. By that we man your eyes instinctively know where to look for the pertinent information (HTC’s solution, while nice, in our view buries the info too much near the Time/date).

But wait, there’s more! (Channeling our inner Billy Mays). You actually have not one but three options for the lockscreen wallpaper. You can have current conditions, hourly or the weekly forecast displayed—whichever you prefer.

Likewise for the new Live Tiles, which come in the non-distracting Metro look or the more HD “photo realistic” design. With version 1.3 you now get the double wide Tile (though it doesn’t flip), medium and small tiles. Any of those can be selected to show current forecast, hourly or weekly.

That’s a pretty awesome choice because you can mix and match things, should you choose to fully embrace the full weather experience. For instance, on our lockscreen we’re showing current conditions but on our doublewide tile, we opted for the weekly forecast. Result? We instantly know the weather conditions now without even unlocking the device and we know the week’s forecast without even launching the app. How’s that for efficiency?

Anyway, watch our hands on video and if you’re enthralled with the prospect of Weather Flow version 1.3, you can go and download it here in the Store. It fetches for $1.99 with a free trial. Thanks, Chris and Kyle, for the tip!

You think so, but I don't.
And since this app has a lot of customization, it'd have been great to add the ability to set the double tile to flip, so that it could show, for ex., the hourly forecast in the front, and the daily forecast in the back :)
THAT would definitely be awesome! :D

Probably my favorite app ever, I bought it a few months ago and haven't used it since it got the 8x because I couldn't stand the letter boxing. Looks amazing now though. I wish all apps were this well made.

Funny you say that because my trophy broke last week and I used my HTC touch pro 2 for about 10 days and a number of times I thought... You know what, not THAT much has changed. Clearly chipsets have improved speed and touch accuracy, but the heart of WM is still in WP. Esp if you used HTCs touch wiz. I realize ppl will prob think WTF am I saying but I'm purely speaking about the essence of it.

I've been thinking the same thing since they started showing off WP7. The OS was rewritten from the ground up but many of the ideas that they had in WM 6.5 have continued to live on. To me, that's a good thing because they'd done a lot of good stuff in Windows Mobile.

What I wonder is why it updates more often than I have it set at. In settings I have it to update every 3 hrs, but the live tile and now the lockscreen always have updated times pretty much everytime I unlock my phone at intervals as small as every 10 minutes.

Just installed the trial. It looks amazing and I'm seriously considering buying it. However, I feel like I'll have to keep the Weather Channel app around for radar, "feels like", and a few other things. I wish WeatherFlow had it all so I could get rid of the others.

I really liked Amazing Weather, too, but I wanted a double wide rich tile with forecast on the back - it was missing one option. And of course it doesn't have this awesome lock screen functionality.

What I do is have Weather Flow for the Live Tile and have The Weather Channel as a small tile to go to when I want detailed info. Sometimes it changes between apps, but I always have one for tile and one for detailed info. It usually stays Weather Flow and Weather Channel, though.

I liked Weather Flow, but I always had inacccurate results for my area, and the app was (previously) much slower than Amazing Weather. Seems like the new version has improved on that, I love the new design, and it's great to see the two apps go head-to-head on great designs that really show off what WP is capable of doing. That said, I'll be sticking with Amazing Weather because of the satellite and radar maps.

Impressive app, i had being going with the clean and simple microsoft weather app. I didnt like accuweather or the other ones due to too much going on.
But the lock screen and the tile options are great with this, i may buy this after trying it out.

I love ?u lumia 920. I went to Starbucks today and gotten some people asking me your phone is very nice hahahah they just love Clear HD screen of the phone. They tell me there bored of there iphone 5 icons hahahaha too bad...

This app makes the weather channel app look like garbage. Kudos to the dev and once again to WPC. This will be at least 3rd app I've purchased because of seeing/hearing about them here. Now, off to check out the dev's other apps ;)

Great update! Glad to see this app updated. I purchased this on my old phone replacing weatherbug v2 as my weather app. Speaking of which, I think they still have both versions of weatherbug in the store..

This is amazing... I loved Weather Flow already, but the fact that I can now put the weather (plus forecast for either day or week) on the start screen WITH a picture of my choice...These guys thought it out, superb!

Wow! If developers really take advantage of what WP8 has to offer this by far the best OS available. And when we get the "missing apps"(Ex. Instagram) that Android and iOS users complain about WP8 is really going to take off.

Hi all, the update is amazing and we love competition, though AmazingWeather has full HD video animations not just static images and its hard to compare both apps as Amazing Weather is more focused on details, also a new update in the works to mix and match live tiles and to add lock screen feature ... so long live WP. :)

App is awful. Lockscreen and live tile are amazing.
The app has always been one of the more useless and slowest weather apps in the marketplace. But Gergely knows design...all his apps have stunning visuals and they are second bar none in aesthetics. I really appreciate how much time they put into making an app breath-taking. But the app has no features whatsoever in regard to weather, switching between cities is a real pain and its the slowest weather app on my L920.

I there some sort of combination to get this to work on the locksxreen consistently? At 1st run it was displaying in my lock screen just fine. Then I changed the wallpaper in the photos hub and I can't get the weather back. Even if I change the wallpaper in the app settings.

This is absolutely the best weather app I've used on any device, period. Seeing these new Win Pho 8 features today actually made me a little too excited than I'd care to admit in polite company. Gergely is a genius of design and usability, and everyone needs to purchase this app to reward him effectively.

Loving it - one question though: I'd like to use the lockscreen forcast together with my plain vanilla solid accent colour background. Problem is however, that I cannot select the default lockscreen wallpapers if I click on use "custom image".
Any idea if they are accessible from somewhere or if the RGB values can be found someplace so I can create my own?
Cheers, E

Just go into your lock screen settings, select image, navigate to the backgrounds folder and select the colour you want - then take a screen shot and crop the image with one of the many editors available.

Purchased this app but only issue I'm having is both the Lock Screen and Live Tile (Forecast) Shows a Row of Mondays instead of a weekly udpate. Restarting did not help. It displays correctly in the App just not on the home screen or lock screen

The app is nice overall, but why the heck do so many of these great apps use the Weather Underground data. That data is mostly a joke. There is no quality control. Anyone can set up a home weather station and connect it to the Wunderground network. The could place the sensors in their bathroom or in plain sunlight. Overall the temps are somewhat accurate, but I dont trust them more than +/- 10 degrees either way. I would much more prefer the local airport that is 30 miles away. At least that will be accurate.

I dont know why developers always go that route. Wunderground data must just be easily accessable and to implement. Developers probably think it is better to use your location and have the closest site to you for your weather.

Another gripe I have is the forecasts change wildly all to often. I do not use Wunderground for forecasts, but maybe they are getting those from there as well. The forecasts are almost always complete garbage as well.

Case and point: It is 12:41pm in Boulder, CO right now and my lockscreen says it is 64 degrees from Weather Flow.

In reality it is not that warm at all. From a reliable weather station on the campus of a univeristy nearby, it is 56 degrees. And from the airport 5 miles away, it is 54. So Weather Flow which used WU data is off by 8-10 degrees. It would be good if this was rare, but is it not. It is common place. Especially on sunny days in the afternoon.

The Wunderground homemade stations are just not ventilated well enough and get too hot during the day.

And it is shame they use that data. Most people dont really pay attention to temperature and what it should be and how it feels to your skin. But I do and this app is garbage (I am an atmospheric scientist for the US Government).

Animated weather radar with history in 5 minute increments and projections into the next couple of hours is a crucial function that all of these apps seem to be forgetting. Well, all except Weather Channel, but the rest of that app stinks. I live in north Texas, which has more tornados then almost anyplace in the country. With that in mind, any weather app I use will have to provide this feature.

This looks very good. I really, really, wish that one of these weather apps (weather flow, amazing weather, etc.) would add in an animated weather radar. Amazing weather has weather radar, but it is not animated, which really stinks if you are trying to see where fronts are moving, etc. I know that there are weather radar apps, but to me, it seems wrong to have to have multiple apps for something this basic. The first of these apps which adds in a good looking, accurate, and fast updating weather radar into their app will have a winner.
Living in north Texas, in the heart of tornado country, this is a must for me in any app I am going to use, or recommend to others.

Actually I find weather flow better. I like their large love tile more. I don't want the tile the same color as my theme, and when you choose that option in amazing weather, it only displays one day forecast.on back of large tile. Weather flow shows 5 days. And amazings medium tile is lame and basically shows the same info as the large tile.

Another gripe with weather flow is the 5 day forecast icons on the large tile. All mine shows is 100% clouds every day. When in reality it is going to be mostly sunny every day where I live. The icons on the tile don't have the sun portion of the icon drawn like the ones in the app do, so it falsely appears to be very cloudy all the time